The Sassy Lawyer & Pinoy Cook on food, family and home.
Established 50 years ago, Din Tai Fung was named by the New York Times as one of the world’s top 10 restaurants in 1993. The queues are long at all hours of the day. But despite the dizzying pace at which customers come and go, the place is clean–and that includes the restrooms. That’s some ... (more)
I don’t remember the last time I went to a shopping mall where there was an ongoing mall-wide sale and bought nothing. I don’t think it ever happened before. Well, until last Sunday. We only had time to eat, have coffee and watch Transformers. My daughter Sam enjoyed herself immensely though. Taking photos.
Published in the Life & Travel section of Manila Standard Today The place was first recommended by a fellow lawyer who spent a few days there with her family. Then, it was again recommended by a fellow blogger who took his family there to celebrate their wedding anniversary and his wife’s birthday. I needed no ... (more)
Marketman is currently conducting a poll that goes: If you are eating out at a medium priced restaurant and find a hair in your food, do you… * Just remove it, set it aside, and go on eating. * Call a waiter over, show him/her the hair, and ask for the dish to be replaced. ... (more)
There’s always a fiesta-like atmosphere here in May, the month when devotees flock to the Cathedral, home to the Our Lady of Peace and Good Voyage (Nuestra Senora de la paz Y Buenviaje). About two and a half hours ago (that would be Sunday evening since it is early Monday morning here right now), while ... (more)
Casa is Spanish for house. CASA is also an acronym for Connie, Antonio, Sam and Alex. We are all surnamed Veneracion. We all love to take photos -- of anything that catches our fancy. It's a family obsession.
This is a journal of how we live, eat, learn, play and have fun. Work? Work is part of playing and having fun. Seriously.
In 2003, a time when I hadn't heard of the term "blog", I started a recipe website at cooking.houseonahill.net using a now defunct content management system that ran on ASP. Ok, never mind the geek talk, I'm sure you're not interested in that. The contents easily multiplied and, in 2004, I moved the food site to pinoycook.net. Always unhappy with the fact that the dot com versions of houseonahill and pinoycook weren't … (click here to read all »)
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